IN WESTERN AFRICA. 
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ANOTHER LETTER FROM SHENGAY. 
Rev. J. B. Elliott, manager of Westeni District, 
in the colony of Sierra Leone, was twice called to 
go to Shengay in the month of October, 1878, 
While there he wrote the following to onr treas- 
urer, Rev. J. K. Billheimer. The tetter is dated 
Shengay, October 7th. 
Erom the above you will see where I am while 
writing this, and will be pleased to hear something 
of the place where you once labored and suffered 
much. The seed was not sown in vain, nor are 
your labors as the pioneer of your missionary so- 
ciety unrewarded. 
What a great contrast, when compearing the 
past with the present. Now you have first-rate 
day-schools and Sabbath-schools equal to any at 
Freetown, Bible and other classes well attended, 
church-services well crowded with anxious wor- 
shipers, and an industrial school in good working 
order. 
There are very good cassava, corn, and potato 
farms, growing beautifully, worked partly by the 
children before and after school. I was wonder- 
fully surprised at the answers the children gave 
to the questions in geography, grammar, and 
arithmetic. 
I preached to a crowded assembly in the church 
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